Alexandra Petri Quotes

Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.

Alexandra Petri

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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

Irene Rosenfeld
- Believe
- Different
- Team
I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

Mae Jemison
- Different
- Why
- Remember
There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.

Adam Draper
- Life
- Value
- Financial
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck
- Time
- Value
- Yourself
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

Xavier Rudd
- Music
- Believe
- Change
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

Kate Forsyth
- People
- Words
- Imagination